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How AI and a changing rental market will shape property management in 2024

Housing Wire

The second is a more competitive rental market, driven by record-high construction of multifamily rental properties. AI can also help close the gap with entry-level talent by reducing the amount of training needed to get started in a role. Smart-home technology is another differentiator to explore.

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Why Manufactured Housing Deserves a Fresh Look

Genworth MI Blog

Truth: A manufactured home is built in a factory and constructed to comply, at a minimum, with the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD Code) enacted June 15, 1976. All factory-built homes constructed after June 15, 1976 must comply with the HUD Code or local building code. can work at night).

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Why Manufactured Housing Deserves a Fresh Look

Genworth MI Blog

Truth: A manufactured home is built in a factory and constructed to comply, at a minimum, with the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD Code) enacted June 15, 1976. All factory-built homes constructed after June 15, 1976 must comply with the HUD Code or local building code. can work at night).

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Why Appraisal Workfiles Are Important

Appraisal Today

Upon arrival, you’re greeted by a lavish motor court leading to timeless modern architecture. With shifts in existing and pending home sales, new home sales, construction activity, and economic indicators such as inflation and mortgage rates, appraisers are navigating a complex landscape. built in 1825 Excerpts: 8 bedrooms, 5.5+

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Appraisers: Be Careful with Your Words

Appraisal Today

bath 4,000sqft 0.35acre lot, Pending sale This futuristic home is new construction that took years to design and build made of steel frame construction cantilevering in what seems to be thin air. Tired of working for AMC/lenders with their UAD, forms, “modernization”, words to not use, etc? There is none of this!

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials.

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Chat GPT For Fannie Form Appraisal Reports

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on hybrid appraisals, business tips, UAD info from Freddie, Fannie modernization, non-lender appraisals, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = retail residential mortgage applications, and has been conducted weekly since 1990. I learned a lot.